Validity and reliability of the Persian translation of the SF-36 version 2 questionnaire

Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 349-357

  Motamed, Nilo ^a   Ayatollahi, A R ^b   Zare, N ^b   Sadeghi Hassanabadi, A ^c  

^a Medical School   (Iran)

^b SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH BELIEF; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; INTERNAL VALIDITY; IRAN; MALE; OUTPATIENT; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; SHORT FORM 36; SOCIOECONOMICS; VALIDATION STUDY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; IRAN; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; ROLE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TRANSLATING;

EID: 33645296035     PISSN: 10203397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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